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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I'm white[/b] and I would assume someone calling me vanilla would mean that I'm kind of generic or standard.  I wouldn't be particularly offended by it b/c I am pretty much vanilla.

I haven't called a black person chocolate, but I could imagine myself using that term in a figurative way to describe a population that is mostly dark-skinned.  It wouldn't seem like an insult, just describing a difference in color.  In fact, I almost would take it or mean it as a sweet or pleasant description of color b/c everyone loves chocolate and it has a very positive connotation to me.

"[b]chocolate" is not the same as saying "blackie"[/b] or "whitey."  Any word can be used pejoritively, but I wouldn't assume that about "chocolate."[/quote]

See, here's the thing.  You don't get to decide that.  You don't get to decide for someone else what's offensive to them.  [/quote]

Great, so if someone calls you 'chocolate' tell that person that you'd prefer to be called something else, and move on.  Of course you have the right to find anything and everything offensive.  But, pretty much any word can be made offensive in any context, maybe depending on tone of voice.

You also don't get to decide for everyone else what is offensive and non-offensive. [/quote]

I wasn't.  But someone who is white simply cannot say that calling someone chocolate is not the same as blackie.  If someone who is Black tells me they're offended by it, done.  If someone who is Black tells me they're not offended by it, done.  I don't get to decide that for them.  See the difference?
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of course you can.  as the speaker, you decide what you are comfortable saying.  the listener also decides.  it is a two-way street.[/quote]

You are way missing the point, but it's not worth it.[/quote]

no, I understand your misguided point.  But we live in one society, not a group of 300 million separate societies.  So if one individual decides it is offensive to review to him as "Michael Smith", it doesn't mean the other 300MM have to agree.  A consensus has to be reached.[/quote]

No, you clearly don't understand the point.  At all.  There doesn't have to be any consensus at all as to what I personally find offensive.  Somehow I think what you find offensive and what I find offensive wouldn't match up at all.  But you have the right to be offended by whatever the hell you want to offended by, and I have the right to be offended by whatever I want to be offended by.  No need to query 300 million other people.  [/quote]

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